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alaeven.bsky.social
Founder European Decentralisation Institute, an independent, non-profit think tank dedicated to advancing decentralisation as a strategic foundation for Europe’s digital society and economy https://eudecentralisation.org
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Daar sta je dan onder met een advertentie voor je leuke evenement in Groningen. Ik zou toch 2x nadenken of ik nog wel via die krant zou willen adverteren. En ja, ik begrijp dat ze een groot bereik hebben, maar het zijn adverteerders die een krant in de lucht houden.

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Grateful to the @ethereum.foundation for supporting the European Decentralisation Institute, an independent, non-profit think tank dedicated to advancing a decentralised digital infrastructure grounded in European values such as sovereignty, privacy, and democracy.

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Food for conspiracy-theorists: a duck was caught on camera for speeding in Switzerland on April 13th. 7 years ago at the exact same location at the exact same date the same (or maybe another) duck was caught for speeding. 🤔 www.trouw.nl/buitenland/e...

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Good example of difference between law and ethics. Always when I read something like this I am reminded of the phrase “that Swiss banker fuck” from The Godfather (hint: it didn’t end well for the banker)

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Great conversation with @abeba.bsky.social on AI. Is it a threat? No. Is it fantastic? No. Is it overhyped? Unfortunately yes. open.spotify.com/episode/5w6D...

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Een in- en inslecht mens. nos.nl/l/2566569

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‘Bro, I have a brain, man!’ God bless this young man.

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Hallo @nieuws.nos.nl hetis geen “Wie is de Mol” of “The Voice of Holland”! (Alhoewel er met de laatste wel wat overeenkomsten zijn)

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Happy to announce the publication of the manifesto of the European Decentralisation Institute, a think tank for advancing decentralisation as a strategic foundation for Europe’s digital society and economy. Read it here: eudecentralisation.org

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Zou Brekelmans dit bedoelen met “laten we elkaar vasthouden”?

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"If the plaintiffs could prove that Meta’s tools created similar works." – If only there was an international ISO standard that could quantify perceptual and semantic content similarity (input vs. Output) ... Oh there is?! #ISCC @wired.com 1/2 www.wired.com/story/meta-l...

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In a session with ChatGPT it suddenly answered with my approximate location, a very small town in NL. ChatGPT keeps insisting it must have been a hallucination but also acknowledge that the probability of it getting the right location is close to zero. So much for trusting OpenAI

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According to the smart kids at McKinsey ai agents will organise into hierarchical teams. What?! Why would they?

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Drinking a cocktail called “black hole” and listening to the illustrious @doynefarmer.bsky.social was a very good way to spend a Sunday evening in Amsterdam. I especially liked this message.

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“It is important to clarify that the security failures at the heart of SignalGate were not related to potential weak points in Signal itself. Signal is the gold standard of secure, end-to-end encrypted messaging” www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

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De minister van landbouw zou er goed aan doen om eens echt na te gaan wat “innovatie” is. Niet alleen maar meer technologie, meer kunst(mest)grepen. Deze boer laat zien hoe je door een paar relatief simpele veranderingen, echt een omslag kunt bereiken. www.trouw.nl/duurzaamheid...

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Weer een gemiste kans

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Dat heeft dit kabinet toch maar bereikt 💪😂 www.nu.nl/binnenland/6... #PVV #VVD

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Here we go. Will Europe end up closer to BRICS than US? Leaving the latter isolated?

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playing around with ChatGPT and other AI services to create images for a presentation. Great fun and frustrating as well as you really need to be very precise in your prompts. It also shows how much knowledge we assume. Let me give an example:

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

To understand and solve 21st century challenges, scientist and practitioners alike should learn to think in terms of complex systems. And one of the best ways to get acquainted with the topic is listening to the accessible podcast @bhcomplexity.bsky.social

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